"disputing" in the verb sense
1. challenge, dispute, gainsay
take exception to
"She challenged his claims"
2. quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate
have a disagreement over something
"We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"
"These two fellows are always scrapping over something"
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